Elections

Monday of November or at such time as shall be fixed by law

Sec 3

All elections for cities of other municipal officers shall be at such times as may be provided by law.

Sec 4

All elections by the citizens shall be by ballot. Every ballot shall be numbered in the order in which it shall be received and the number recorded by the election officers on the list of voters, opposite the name of the of the elector who pursuits the ballot. Any elect or may write his name upon his ticket, or cause the same to be written theron and attest by a city of the district. The election officers shall be and worn or affirmed not to disclose how any elector shall have voted unless required to do so as a witness unjudicial proceeding.

Sec 5

Electors shall in all cases xcept, in the as on felony breach or surety of the peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance on elections and going to and returning there-from

Sec 6

Whenever any of the qualified electors of this State shall be in actual military service of the United States, or by authority of this State, such electors may xercise the right or suffrage, in all elections by the citizens, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law as fully as if they were present at their places of election.

Sec 7

All laws regulating the holding of elections by the citizens, or for the registration of electors shall be uniform throughout the State, but no law shall be paid which shall deprive the citizen of the privilege of voting of reason of his name not being reg-istered, if he or she shall be otherwise qualified.

Sec 8

Any person who shall give, or promise or offer to give, to an elector, any money reward or other valuable consideration for his vote at an election, or for withholding the same, or who shall give or promise to give such considera-tion to any other person or party for such electors vote for the withholding thereof, and any elector who shall receive or agree to receive for himself or for another any money reward or other valuable consid-eration for his or her vote at an election, or forewithholding the same and any person whose vote shall be challenged for such cause before the election officers, shall be required to swear or affirm that the matter of the challenge is unture before his or her vote shall be taken, and any person who shall swear or affirm falsely on such challing who shall be deemed guilty of perjury and if found guilty shall be punished as in other cases of perjury.

Sec 9

In trial of Contested elections and in proceedings for the investigation of election no person shall be per-mitted to withhold his or her testimony on the ground that it may criminate himself or herself or subject him or her to public infamy; but such testimony shall not afterwards be used against him or her in any Judicial proceeding xcept for perjury in giving such testimony.

Sec 10

All elections in a representation capacity shall be viva voce.

Sec 11

For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his resource, or lost it by reason of his absence while employed in the service. Either Civil or military, of this State or of the United States, or of the high Seas, nor while a student in any institution of learning nor while kept in any poorhouse or other assylum kept by public xpress nor while confined in a prison.

Sec 12

District election boards shall consist of a Judge and two inspectors and each inspector shall appoint one clerk these offices shall be filled as shall be provided by law.

Sec 13

No person holding any office under the united States, or of this State or in any County or in any city, borough or township xcept Justice of the Peace, shall serve as an officer of any general election while he holds such office, or while he or she shall hold any office appointment under the United States or of this State.

Sec 14

The district courts of the several districts of this State shall have power to appoint on the petion of three or more electors Supervisors in any election district whose duties it shall be attend at such election on the days set for an election, and see that no fraud be practiced there at the said Supervisors shall consist of qualified electors of such election district and opposite political parties. When any dispute shall arise with regard to the right of any person to vote or on any other matter relating to the election laws the Superiors shall be called upon to give their opinion, the Supervisors shall be allowed the same compensation for their services as the officers of the election. Whenever the number of votes shall xceed Five hundred at any one election pre-cinct, the precinct shall be divided by the board county commissioners, by geograh-ical mets and bounds and the voting places shall be stated in the election pro-clamation in each county.

The Trial and determination of contested elections of electors for President and vice Presidents of the United States and all public officers whether State, judicial municipal or local, shall be by the courts only one or more of the Judges there of the Legislature shall provide by law the manners of such trials.

• Elections [File No. 6, Convention] (introduced on 1889-09-24 09:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e713992) [This document]

• Elections [File No. 6, Convention] (introduced on 1889-09-24 09:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e713992) [This document] [view current proposal at this moment]